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CodeNinja-C# wrote: After that incident, my employer contact me and promise to give good feedback when my future employers ask
Get it in writing. 
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Good idea JimmyRopes, Thanks
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That sucks. In the UK most decent firms have a sequence of HR procedures such as verbal warning, written warning, and a number of steps to be addressed before dismissal but not all firms have that. Certainly, get it in writing and document everything you can recall. It might not be needed but something written down will be fresh long after the mind has become clouded. 
Best of luck.
"I do not have to forgive my enemies, I have had them all shot." — Ramón Maria Narváez (1800-68).
"I don't need to shoot my enemies, I don't have any." - Me (2012).
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Dont offer any information about this topic in the interview, unless they bring it up. If it is brought up, be honest, but check your personal feelings at the door and try to state your side objectively.
Try to focus on what you are capable of and why you will be a great asset to the prospective employer.
I wouldnt depend on anything that a previous employer says what they will do verbally after you have left. You should get a written statement from them before you leave the office for the final time.
Terminating employment is often an uncomfortable situation both both sides. It's usually a very sticky situation, legally, for the employer. In my experience they will placate the employee because they are no longer an asset, and possibly out of sympathy from the person informing the employee of their termination.
Debugging is twice as hard a writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.
--Brian W. Kernighan
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Love the Kerningham quote.
Nearly as good as my favourite C.A.R.Hoare quote:
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult. It demands the same skill, devotion, insight, and even inspiration as the discovery of the simple physical laws which underlie the complex phenomena of nature."
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Have a really long read of this Q&A blog: http://www.askamanager.org/[^]. Lots of great posts on there, and many great discussions too.
But... which country are you in? I assume from phrasing, you're from India, but it's guess work. A lot of advice will be country dependent, such as elegibility for unemployment, etc.
Getting an agreed story in writing in exchange for agreeing not to sue my be possible.
I also would not trust them. Do you have a "Managery" sounding friend you can get to pretend to be checking your references in a few weeks time?
If you do have references at your former employer you can use, all the better. Otherwise, any future employer may get in touch with your last company anyway.
I don't have a lot of experience with this as an applicant though - I was with my previous company for a LONG time, and I got my current job due to good timing, a "give me a job" codeproject signature, and my articles and MFC forum postings. My last interview was much more me interviewing them as a possible employer than the other way around. I'm only showing off a little bit - if you're visibly active and decently skilled, you might be able to skip a lot of job search rubbish. Again, country dependent...
Iain.
I am one of "those foreigners coming over here and stealing our jobs". Yay me!
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Thanks Iain, I have decided to follow your way
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CodeNinja-C# wrote: I have left the meeting and told them about my resignation. After that my employer send the termination letter which is quoted that "You have been terminated as part of disciplinary action".
If you described that correctly...
Where I live that is factually wrong and with a written notice from them you could probably start civil action.
The basis of that is that you resigned first. Thus they did not terminate you.
It would help if your resignation was in writing and given to them. Or alternatively if their was other corroborative evidence that you resigned first.
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Those are pretty cool, if a little jumpy. But the concept and implementation is amazing.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Microsoft, in their infinite wisdom  have decided to encourage users to associate their Windows 8 login to a Microsoft Account. There is one massive downside here.
My mother, while installing her new Win8 laptop, created a new Windows Live account (now renamed, yet again, to Microsoft Accounts) associated with her existing ISP email account. Now we'd like to change that to be a new "Outlook.com" email account, so she's not permanently tied to an ISP. Windows Live does not seem to allow changing the associated email address, or at least not as far as I can tell. Consequently, we can find no way of changing this.
I foresee some problems...
1. An ISP could go bust, effectively breaking the system.
2. She may want to change ISP in future, but her MS account is tied to the ISP account.
3. Any Metro app purchases are tied to her MS account, so reinstalling with a new account means she's lost any investment in apps, along with settings etc.
I've spent half a day struggling with this and come up a blank. Anyone got any suggestions?
Failing that, how on earth am I supposed to get support from MS nowadays for this kind of issue? I cannot seem to find any support info through their web sites anymore.
PS. I've tried the "Rename account" or "Change email account" options under Microsoft Account. These simply go to a page saying "The email address associated with your Microsoft account cannot be changed" message. Very helpful.
modified 4-Jan-13 19:19pm.
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Failing that, how on earth am I supposed to get support from MS nowadays for this kind of issue? I cannot seem to find any support info through their web sites anymore.
Maybe, in court? In all honesty, this sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen.
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wizardzz wrote: Maybe, in court? In all honesty, this sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen.
I agree and it will be interesting to see how long it takes before it happens.
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I will definitely report it as an issue - if I can find anywhere to so.
I may also decide to report it as an anti-trust issue in the EU.
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Ok, i have/had pretty much the exact same issue except i was testing out Win8 and i associated it with an old account that i dont use anymore. Long story short i didnt want to do that any more and faced the same issue you had.
You are not going to like this but here i go.
You can only change the email address associated with an id from a xbox ... yup that's right you have to use an xbox. Also you can only make a change to the account every 30 days. So if your mom just set it up she is going to have to wait 30 days before she can transfer her account to another email address. Oh yea linking your profile to an xbox counts as a change so you will have to wait 30 days *after* you add that profile to your xbox before you can actually change it.
After all that the process is pretty simple, just log into your xbox on that account then open then system menu and somewhere in there (cant remember exactly where) is the option to change your email address.
Don't comment your code - it was hard to write, it should be hard to read!
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I don't have an XBox, so that options out.
My Mother, at 72 is unlikely to get one either.
PS. You were right, I don't like this.
modified 4-Jan-13 19:19pm.
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Which puts you in a boat up a certain creek with a lot of other people without paddles.
I really hope MS figures this out because i see this being a common problem.
Don't comment your code - it was hard to write, it should be hard to read!
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Yup. Somehow the Windows Phone Marketplace and the Windows 8 Store seem to use the same underlying customer database as xbox live!!!.
I first came across the issue 4 years ago when I got my xbox but then when I got a WinPhone 7 I needed to buy apps so I went though "the process".
Typically of MS, since they had already had a way to change the xbox live account, using an xbox, they figured that their job was already done. - Obviously a web-version of the form isn't necessary right?
BTW Their official advice for those people without an xbox - Ask a friend if you can borrow theirs.
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It looks like it's no longer possible[^] to change the default email address, though I did change from an ISP based login to a hotmail login about a year ago, so I don't know why they changed it. 
My suggestion, though it's not ideal, is to create an alias on the live account and use it as the address for all emails and treat the current ISP based sign in like a username, then change all the notification options to use the alias.
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Rod Kemp wrote: create an alias on the live account and use it as the address for all emails and treat the current ISP based sign in like a username, then change all the notification options to use the alias
But I thought crossing the streams was BAD, Rod?
Software Zen: delete this;
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"Who ya gonna call?"
Bob Dole The internet is a great way to get on the net.
2.0.82.7292 SP6a
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Thanks, can I encourage users/readers to flag this as "I have this issue", and ideally leave a comment objecting to the Win8 repercussions of this awful decision, so that MS may feel the need to act fast to resolve this horrible mess.
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